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Meg Leder

Biography

Meg Leder

A former bookseller and teacher, Meg Leder currently works as a book editor in New York City. Her role models are Harriet the Spy and Anne Shirley. She is the author of LETTING GO OF GRAVITY, THE MUSEUM OF HEARTBREAK, the coauthor of THE HAPPY BOOK, and spends her free time reading, looking for street art and people watching. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Meg Leder

Books by Meg Leder

Parker struggles to reconnect with her twin brother, Charlie --- who’s recovering from cancer --- as she tries to deal with her anxiety about the future. Now that Charlie is officially in remission, life couldn’t be going better for Parker. She has landed a prestigious summer internship at the hospital and is headed to Harvard in the fall to study pediatric oncology. Enter Finn, a boy who’s been leaving strange graffiti messages all over town. Parker can’t stop thinking about those messages, or about Finn, who makes her feel free for the first time: free to doubt, free to make mistakes, and free to confront the truth that Parker has been hiding from for a long time --- that she keeps trying to save Charlie, when the person who really needs saving is herself.

Penelope Marx learns that heartbreak comes in all forms: There’s Keats, the charmingly handsome new guy who couldn’t be more perfect for her. There’s possibly the worst person in the world, Cherisse, whose mission in life is to make Penelope miserable. There’s Penelope’s increasingly distant best friend Audrey. And then there’s Penelope’s other best friend, the equal-parts-infuriating-and-yet-somehow-amazing Eph, who has been all kinds of confusing lately. But sometimes the biggest heartbreak of all is learning to let go of that wondrous time before you ever knew things could be broken.